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Folding Utopia: crash course in paper architecture

The workshop ‘Folding Utopia - A crash course in paper megastructures’ was taking place at Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design www.ravb.nl/
December 13 – 14th.
Many thanks to Jeroen Visschers, Alenka Milward, Dennis Holten, Edgar Holstein and participating students.
Participating students were coming from Interieuropleiding Willem de Kooning Academie & Minor Architectuur Bouwkunde, Haagse Hogeschool.
For two days the students were asked to build a megastructure development between Heijplaat to Nieuw-Mathenesse in Rotterdam Or in other words to bridge the north and the south side of the city. Students were working in four groups, when each group investigated a different structural typology.
The work made with 1500 x A4 Collective Paper Aesthetics building blocks.
Building blocks were manufactured in drukkerij De Bink, Leiden.